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A tremendously stimulating investigation of failure in biological and economic systems.

Jan 28th, 2010 | Filed under Books

Commander Vimes of the Watch is forced into diplomatic duty.

Jan 20th, 2010 | Filed under Books

Part 11: Your Poetry is Served This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here. A Twisted Poetry Server Now that we’ve learned so much about writing clients with Twisted, let’s turn around and re-implement our poetry server with Twisted too. And thanks to the generality of Twisted’s [...]

Jan 17th, 2010 | Filed under Blather, Programming, Python, Software

A thorough, and thoroughly excellent, introduction to the programming language Haskell.

Jan 16th, 2010 | Filed under Books

A bit dry, but it gets the job done.

Jan 11th, 2010 | Filed under Books

A fine detective story with a premise that requires some heavy lifting in the suspension-of-disbelief area. Thanks Amy!

Jan 10th, 2010 | Filed under Books

A short but remarkably powerful novel.

Jan 5th, 2010 | Filed under Books

The Quest for the Foundations of Mathematics, in comic book form. Great stuff.

Jan 3rd, 2010 | Filed under Books